Word: eves
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight a Thomas rally and two debates are on the bill, while Monday will bring out Wallaceites and Young Republicans here and at Radcliffe in election-eve torchlight parades...
...aboriginal British attitude toward animals was also demonstrated last week at Hereford, where a Church of England clergyman, the Rev. L. J. B. Snell, invited the children of his parish to bring their animals to church on the eve of the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi, famed for his love of animals. Ducks, chickens, cats and guinea pigs by the score turned up at Hereford's Holy Trinity Church. One youngster brought a tiddler (British for sunfish) in a jar. There was a lamb (owner's name: Mary) with its fleece (according to the Associated Press) only...
...Christmas Eve in 1947, the U.S. Treasury gave a present to U.S. bankers: it would continue to support the price of long-term Government bonds above par by having the Federal Reserve banks buy bonds back at the "pegged" price if there were no other buyers. With this arrangement, the Government hoped to make it easier to sell "Treasuries." Furthermore, this deal would keep down interest rates, in line with its "cheap money" policy on long-term bonds, and it would stabilize the bond market. For a while the plan worked -but only for a while...
...Salem (Mass.), deserve a place of their own in New England history. They built one of the great fortunes of post-Revolutionary days, went cruising to the Mediterranean in a fabulous pleasure boat named Cleopatra's Barge, and fervently supported Thomas Jefferson. One Crowninshield hanged himself on the eve of his trial in a sensational murder case. Another left an account of his travels (Journal of Captain John Crowninshield at Calcutta, 1797-1798, When Master of the Ship Belisarius*) that is far better than most fiction...
...Manhattan's George L. K. Morris contributed an abstraction as tasteful as any in the show, though it demonstrated how academic abstractionism can get. Entitled New Year's Eve on Broadway, it might almost have been painted 30 years ago-on Montmartre-if the signboards had read Vin and Tabac instead of Four Roses and Camels...